To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.