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.

A great large book is a great evil.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!]

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

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