Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

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

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.