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

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.

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

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

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

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

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.