The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.