It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

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

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

May you live all the days of your life.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.