Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

Virtue is too often merely local.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.