I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.