The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.