The only true source of politeness is consideration.
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.