When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.