At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.