"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all the…"

"The greatest advantage of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

"He that is a master of himself, is a master of the world."

"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."

"The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude."