Good order is the foundation of all things.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.