Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.