“Hell is paved with good intentions.”

“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ”

“All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”

“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”

“As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. ”

“There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.”