You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

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.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.