Every man has his devilish minutes.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.