A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

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.

Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.