It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.