So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from...

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of...

These are some of the hardest islands to visit. Many of them don’t have airports.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

It’s a classical destination. It’s almost like a pilgrimage.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit of men

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they...

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey’s end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed