An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.