The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

...the Gods too love a joke.