The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Round numbers are always false.