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.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye; that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.