There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.