The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

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

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

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

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.