What is reading but silent conversation?
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.