Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.