Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.