Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.