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

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.