Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
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.