It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.