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

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

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

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

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.