There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

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.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

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.