It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all..

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserve….

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment..

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they ….

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks..

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the n….

Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly an….

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back..

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters..

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards..

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause..

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand in….

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs..

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal..

In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estat….

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven..

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness..

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the conscien….

No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all abo….

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor..

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice..