The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Virtue is its own reward.
Falsehoods border on truths.
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.