No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.