It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.