Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.