All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

May you live all the days of your life.

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

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.