Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.