It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.