All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.