“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”

“Morality is a private and costly luxury”

“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt”

“There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country”

“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man”

“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another”