Everything yields to diligence.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.