If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.