Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.