The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.