Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.