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

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.