Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

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.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.