When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.