“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”

““The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them”

“The truest end of life, is to know the life that never ends”

“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise”

“To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny”