To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

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.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.