The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.