It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.