You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
The future is purchased by the present.
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.