Forgive what you can't excuse.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.