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.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.