Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

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.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.