Women are books, and men the readers be.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.