The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Better too much form than too little.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

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

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.