The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.