A True Party-man Hates And Despises Candour.

The Learned Ignore The Evidence Of Their Senses To Preserve The Coherence Of The Ideas Of Their Imagination.

An Instructed And Intelligent People Are Always More Decent And Orderly Than An Ignorant And Stupid One.

Never Complain Of That Of Which It Is At All Times In Your Power To Rid Yourself.

Men Desire To Have Some Share In The Management Of Public Affairs Chiefly On Account Of The Importance Which It Gives Them.

The Man Who Barely Abstains From Violating Either The Person, Or The Estate, Or The Reputation Of His Neighbours, Has Surely Very Little Positive Merit. He Fulfils, However, All The Rules Of What Is Peculiarly Called Justice, And Does Every Thing Which His Equals Can With Propriety Force Him To Do, Or Which They Can Punish Him For Not Doing. We May Often Fulfil All The Rules Of Justice By Sitting Still And Doing Nothing.