[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.