Virtue which shuns, the day.

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

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.