We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

Hope is the best possession.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.