To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

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.