Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

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

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.