Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.