There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

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.