The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

He that never thinks can never be wise.