By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

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.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.