Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.