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.

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

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.