Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.