People in distress never think that you feel enough.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.