Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.