Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.