Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

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

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.