Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.