Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its uneasiness, which those who do not feel them will not commiserate. An event which spreads distraction over half the commercial world, assembles the trading companies in councils and committees, and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers, is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.