When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.

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

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

There is nothing that strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have to hear below.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.