Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.