Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.