Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

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