men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.