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.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.