If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.