There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason..

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to s….

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power..

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of ….

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves..

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the….

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools..

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--h….

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an hones….

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous qua….

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure..

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christ….

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged..

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages..

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course..

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes..

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot..

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one..

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure..

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils..

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those….