“The young man, who intends no ill,Believes that none is intended, and thereforeActs with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.”

“I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.”

“I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.”

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”

“A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.”

“Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”

“men do not suspect faults which they do not commit”