There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts