That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.