The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.