Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.