Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

How vast a memory has Love!

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.