Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.