Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

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

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.