Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.