A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.