Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The most positive men are the most credulous.