Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.