Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.