Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.