The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

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!

The end of government is the happiness of the people.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

Language is the machine of the poet.