As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.