Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.