One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.