“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”

“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world”

“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”

“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man”

“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”

“Morality is a private and costly luxury”