From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.