If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.