Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

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.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.