Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.