It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.