There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

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

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.