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.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

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.