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

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

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

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

There is a great amity between designing and art.