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

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

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

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

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