To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Every man is of importance to himself.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.