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

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

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

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.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.