In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.