I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.