Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.