Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

That plenty should produce either covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.