To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.