Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.