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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.