A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.