Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.