Liberty Of Any Kind Is Never Lost

It Is Not Reason Which Is The Guide Of Life, But Custom.

Happy The Man Whom Indulgent Fortune Allows To Pay To Virtue What He Owes To Nature, And To Make A Generous Gift Of What Must Otherwise Be Ravished From Him By Cruel Necessity.

In All Matters Of Opinion And Science ... The Difference Between Men Is ... Oftener Found To Lie In Generals Than In Particulars; And To Be Less In Reality Than In Appearance. An Explication Of The Terms Commonly Ends The Controversy, And The Disputants Are Surprised To Find That They Had Been Quarrelling, While At Bottom They Agreed In Their Judgement.

When Men Are Most Sure And Arrogant They Are Commonly Most Mistaken.

It Is... A Just Political Maxim, That Every Man Must Be Supposed A Knave.