Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.