Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.