It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

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.