Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.