Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
The future is purchased by the present.
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.