So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

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