The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.