Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.