“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The awful realization of our mortality