All Imposture Weakens Confidence And Chills Benevolence.

It Is In Refinement And Elegance That The Civilized Man Differs From The Savage.

All Violation Of Established Practice Implies In Its Own Nature A Rejection Of The Common Opinion, A Defiance Of Common Censure, And An Appeal From General Laws To Private Judgment: He, Therefore, Who Differs Form Others Without Apparent Advantage, Ought Not To Be Angry If His Arrogance Is Punished With Ridicule; If Those Whose Example He Superciliously Overlooks, Point Him Out To Derision, And Hoot Him Back Again Into The Common Road.

It Is Astonishing That Any Man Can Forbear Enquiring Seriously Whether There Is A God; Whether God Is Just; Whether This Life Is The Only State Of Existence.

Wit Will Never Make A Man Rich, But There Are Places Where Riches Will Always Make A Wit.

There Must Always Be A Struggle Between A Father And Son, While One Aims At Power And The Other At Independence.