Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.