What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

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