To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.