There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

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

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.