Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.