To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.