Superstition is but the fear of belief.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

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