An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

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.

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.