Good temper is an estate for life. - William Hazlitt

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

We grow tired of every thing but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.