There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. 
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics. 
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race. 
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. 
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. 
It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice. 
How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness! 
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. 
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent. 
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.