To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
From Joseph Addison
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
The post of honour is a private station.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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