The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.