There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

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