"As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature …"

"Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by m…"

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the …"

"Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, a…"

"But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does."

"To desire you to read my book over and mark all the corrections you would wish me to make...would oblige me greatly: …"

"The Union was a measure from which infinite Good has been derived to this country."

"Poor David Hume is dying very fast, but with great cheerfulness and good humour and with more real resignation to the…"

"I perfectly agree with your Lordship too, that to crush the Industry of so great and so fine a province of the empire…"

"Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind."