How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.