Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

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

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.