Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.