Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.