Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?