Oaths Are The Fossils Of Piety.

There Is Nothing To Which Men, While They Have Food And Drink, Cannot Reconcile Themselves.

Love Is At Once More Animal Than Friendship And More Divine.

Wealth, Religion, Military Victory Have More Rhetorical Than Efficacious Worth.

A Simple Life Is Its Own Reward.

Religion Is Indeed A Convention Which A Man Must Be Bred In To Endure With Any Patience; And Yet Religion, For All Its Poetic Motley, Comes Closer Than Work-a-day Opinion To The Heart Of Things.