The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

It is our first duty to serve society.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.