“Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

“I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules”

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.”

“Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.”