“False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.”

“I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”

“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of danger-ous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the personof an antagonist odious.”

“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”

“Be true in love, this you must do, unless your love is false to you. With these words, the Rede fulfill: An it harm none, do what ye will.”