A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.