It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.