Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.
True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.