So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.