Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.