Genius speaks only to genius.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.