Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.