We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

Fill each day with light and heart.

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

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.