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

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.