I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance