Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

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.

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.