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

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.