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

“Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.”

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

“Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.”

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

“The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. ”

“Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. ”