Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.