One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

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

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

Encourage innocent amusement.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.