It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Good manners are a part of good morals.