Of All Virtues, Magnanimity Is The Rarest.

The Contemplation Of Truth And Beauty Is The Proper Object For Which We Were Created, Which Calls Forth The Most Intense Desires Of The Soul, And Of Which It Never Tires.

We Do Not See Nature With Our Eyes, But With Our Understandings And Our Hearts.

Every One In A Crowd Has The Power To Throw Dirt; None Out Of Ten Have The Inclination.

Humanity Is To Be Met With In A Den Of Robbers.

Mankind Are An Incorrigible Race. Give Them But Bugbears And Idols -- It Is All That They Ask; The Distinctions Of Right And Wrong, Of Truth And Falsehood, Of Good And Evil, Are Worse Than Indifferent To Them.