Whatever is, is right.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.