In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.