Those who laugh often never grow old.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.