Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.