What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Truth allows no choice.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.