Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

Avarice is always poor.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.