Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.