The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.