We must look a long time before we can see

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.