Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.