Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.