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" Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. "

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" To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. "

" The discipline of desire is the background of character. "

" All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. "

" To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. "

" We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. "

" It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. "

" Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. "

" There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. "

" It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. "

" Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. "

" Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. "

" One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. "

" Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. "

" There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. "

" All wealth is the product of labor. "

" It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. "

" Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. "

" Where there is no property there is no injustice. "

" The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. "

" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "

" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. "

" New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "

" Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. "

" We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. "

" Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. "

" I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "

" Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. "

" Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. "

" A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. "