Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

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.