A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.