The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?