Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

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

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

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