To innovate is not to reform.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.