All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.