The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.