Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
When men are employed they are best contented.
Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.
Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.