Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.