It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

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

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.