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

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.