A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.