A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.