He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass. You will be necessarily upborne by the air if you can renew any impulse upon it faster than the air can recede from the pressure.

The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.