In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

He who knows himself knows others.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other