It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

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

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~