What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?