He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.