Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.