Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
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.
Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.