A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.