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To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.
Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.
Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.
If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has honest morals, and is a man of natural justice and good temper, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious and devout.
No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.
True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.
When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.