"Innocence is like polished armour; it adorns, and it defends."

"[W]onder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience."

"Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."

"For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or …"

"[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little contr…"

"It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a pe…"

"[N]o man's religion ever survives his morals."

"[T]here never was any heart truly great and generous' that was not also tender and compassionate."

"[S]ociety is built upon trust, and trust upon the confidence that men have of one another's integrity."

"Anger [is], according to some, a transient hatred, or at least very like it."