The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.