O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.