The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

Love is only one of many passions.

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.