I Never Asserted Such An Absurd Thing

Eloquence, When In Its Highest Pitch, Leaves Little Room For Reason Or Reflection.

Interest Is The Barometer Of The State.

Reasoning From The Common Course Of Nature, And Without Supposing Any New Interposition Of The Supreme Cause, Which Ought Always To Be Excluded From Philosophy; What Is Incorruptible Must Also Be Ingenerable. The Soul, Therefore, If Immortal, Existed Before Our Birth: And If The Former Existence Noways Concerned Us, Neither Will The Latter.

Uncommon Expressions Are A Disfigurement Rather Than An Embellishment Of Discourse.

Happy The Man Whom Indulgent Fortune Allows To Pay To Virtue What He Owes To Nature, And To Make A Generous Gift Of What Must Otherwise Be Ravished From Him By Cruel Necessity.