An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind