To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.