Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.