Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

Falsehoods border on truths.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

By doubting we come at truth.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.