Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.