Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

The post of honour is a private station.