Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.