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

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.