Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

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

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.