It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

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

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.