The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.