I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

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

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.