Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

It is our first duty to serve society.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.