A lie is an excuse guarded

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.