The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

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

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.