For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.