From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.