How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.