Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.