It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

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

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.