A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.