The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Time is money.