Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.
Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.