There is a variety in tempers of good men.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.