Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Names govern the world.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.