The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.