Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.