The post of honour is a private station.

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.