There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.