If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.