Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.