Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.