Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.