A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.