For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

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

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.