Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.