There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

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.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.