Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
History is fables agreed upon.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."