Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
Almost all life depends on probabilities.
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.