Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.