Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.