I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.