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

All of heaven we have below.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.