I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.