The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.