Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.