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

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

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.

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