Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.