An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.