As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

The world is governed by opinion.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.