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.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

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

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

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.

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.

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.