He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.