I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Money confounds subordination.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.