Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
A man acquainted with history may in some respect be said to have lived from the beginning of the world and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
Every wise just and mild government by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure will always abound most in people as well as in commodities and riches.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
There is not to be found in all history any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men of such unquestioned good sense education and learning as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
A purpose an intention a design strikes everywhere even the careless the most stupid thinker.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
Accuracy is in every case advantageous to beauty and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
Beauty whether moral or natural is felt more properly than perceived.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid lively forcible firm steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.