We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.