If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.