Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.