No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.