In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.
In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.