“To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..”
“The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.”
“Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.”
“Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.”
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”
“He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.”
“There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.”
“Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.”
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”
“Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.”
“Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.”
“Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.”
“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.”
“Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.”
“Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.”
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”
“There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.”
“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”
“Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”
“I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.”
“It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.”
“Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.”
“From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.”
“How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?”
“It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.”
“Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.”
“The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.”
“Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.”
“Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
“But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.”