Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

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

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.