Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

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

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.