A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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.

The post of honour is a private station.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.