We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.