The smell rewards the care.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed with thought, and two to believe, first that of an existence called spirit, of which we have neither evidence nor idea, and then secondly how that spirit, which has neither extension nor solidity, can put material organs into motion.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them