War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.