It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.