Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

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

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.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

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