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

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

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

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.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.