There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.