To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.