The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.