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.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.