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

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

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

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.