Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.