Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.