Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.