Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.
We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.
It is a man’s own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.