The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.