The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.