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.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.