Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.