Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.