The only true source of politeness is consideration.

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

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

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

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.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.