The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.