It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.