Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Books are a languid pleasure.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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