[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination.