The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

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

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.