Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

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.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

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

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.