The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.