It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.