To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

It is our first duty to serve society.