Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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

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.