Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.