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.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.