Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.