Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.