Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

My voice is still for war.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.