In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.