To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

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.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.