Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

All industry must be excited by hope.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.