Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.