Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

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.