Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

No man can help another without helping himself.