Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.