Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

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

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.