Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.