There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

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.

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

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.