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.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

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.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.