The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.