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 proverb answers where the sermon fails.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.