It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.