Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.