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.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.