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

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.

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

The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.

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

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

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