A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.