There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.