Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.