Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.