The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

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.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.