To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.