[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.