Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.