The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.