There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

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.

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

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

In rising sighs and falling tears.