We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.