Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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