I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.