"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."

"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

"Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."

"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 arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."