Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.