Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.