Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.