Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.