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

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

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

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

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

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.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.