Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.