Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.