As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.