“Morality is a private and costly luxury”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“Great necessities call out great virtues”

“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens ”

“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”

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