Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.
Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.