Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.