When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.