The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.