Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!