Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.