An Honest Man Nearly Always Thinks Justly.

I Think We Cannot Too Strongly Attack Superstition, Which Is The Disturber Of Society; Nor Too Highly Respect Genuine Religion, Which Is The Support Of It.

General Abstract Truth Is The Most Precious Of All Blessings; Without It, Man Is Blind; It Is The Eye Of Reason.

Virtue Is A State Of War, And To Live In It We Have Always To Combat With Ourselves.

Ordinary Readers, Forgive My Paradoxes: One Must Make Them When One Reflects; And Whatever You May Say, I Prefer Being A Man With Paradoxes Than A Man With Prejudices.

Generally We Obtain Very Surely And Very Speedily What We Are Not Too Anxious To Obtain.