Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

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

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have