In rising sighs and falling tears.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

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.

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.