The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.