Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.