Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

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

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

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.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.