Our necessities never equal our wants.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Let the experiment be made.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!