One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.