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

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.