Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.

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