To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.