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?

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.