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

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

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.

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.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.