Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

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

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.

It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.