All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.