The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.