We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.