Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.