A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.