Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.