The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

Only your friends steal your books.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.