Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.