Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?