What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.