Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.
No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Hope is itself a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it
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