Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.