A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.