Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.
Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
A coward's courage is in his tongue.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.