Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

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

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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