Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

The more you do, the more you can do.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.