Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.