There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.