Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.