By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.