Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

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

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.