Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.