Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also a….

They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making o….

Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a tho….

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinen….

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers..

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles..

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren..

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious..

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself..

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be..

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable..

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back ….

Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got..