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

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

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