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

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.