Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Consult duty not events.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.