Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

To build is to be robbed.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.