There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.