When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.