If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Ada beberapa yang berbicara dengan baik dan menulis dengan buruk. Karena tempat dan penonton menghangatkan mereka, dan menarik dari pikiran mereka lebih dari yang mereka pikirkan tanpa kehangatan itu.
Imajinasi membuang segalanya; itu menciptakan keindahan, keadilan, dan kebahagiaan, yang merupakan segalanya di dunia ini.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Keadilan dan kekuasaan harus berjalan beriringan. Jadi apa pun yang adil mungkin akan berkuasa dan apa pun yang berkuasa mungkin akan adil.
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Dengan mengetahui hasrat penguasa setiap orang, kami yakin akan menyenangkannya; namun masing-masing memiliki khayalannya sendiri, bertentangan dengan kebaikannya yang sebenarnya, dalam gagasan yang dia miliki tentang kebaikan.