A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.