Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.