All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.
Every man is of importance to himself.
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.