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.

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.

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

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.