Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.