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.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.