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.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

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.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.