From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

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.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.