Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.