How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

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

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.