Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.