Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.