It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

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.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

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

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.