An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.