Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

I row after health like a waterman.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.