When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.