Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.