We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.