“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

Anglo-Irish writer and satirist · 1667 – 1745

Anglo-Irish writer and satirist, author of Thoughts on Various Subjects.

Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711-1726) · ✓ Source verified

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Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

The Child is father of the Man.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.