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

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

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

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

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.

I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."