Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.