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.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.