How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Life is a kind of chess.

I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.