A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

Custom is the great guide of human life.

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when ...

It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.