Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.