Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.