New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.