Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.