There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.