Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

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

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.