Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

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

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.