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

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.