Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.