There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

No one ever became great by imitation.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.