Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.