The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

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.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.