The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.