To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.