Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.