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

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

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 preserved inviolate to him.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

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

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

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 will part with nothing.

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

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

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

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend a wholesome counsellor a cheerful companion or an effectual comforter.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

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

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.