Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.