The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilit….

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living….

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of i….

The proverb answers where the sermon fails..

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul..

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor..

The dread of criticism is the death of genius..

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery..

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man..

The only true source of politeness is consideration..

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable r….

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like th….

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

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessa….

What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a ….

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures..

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent..

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the ….

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them..

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

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy..