The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.