To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.