He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.