“Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,And stand secure amidst a falling world.”

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.”

“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”

“True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation”

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

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

“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”