A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter.