He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

They condemn what they do not understand.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.