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

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

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.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

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.