The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

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.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.