We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.