Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.