Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
Wit is educated insolence.