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

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.