Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.