He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

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

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.