If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

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.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

A great large book is a great evil.