I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.