It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.