If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.