When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.