To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.