A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.