The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.