Serious Occupation Is Labor That Has Reference

Everybody Allows That To Know Any Other Science You Must Have First Studied It, And That You Can Only Claim To Express A Judgment Upon It In Virtue Of Such Knowledge. Everybody Allows That To Make A Shoe You Must Have Learned And Practised The Craft Of The Shoemaker, Though Every Man Has A Model In His Own Foot, And Possesses In His Hands The Natural Endowments For The Operations Required. For Philosophy Alone, It Seems To Be Imagined, Such Study, Care, And Application Are Not In The Least Requisite

Freedom Is The Fundamental Character Of The Will, As Weight Is Of Matter... That Which Is Free Is The Will. Will Without Freedom Is An Empty Word.

The Catholics Had Been In The Position Of Oppressors, And The Protestants Of The Oppressed

Philosophy Is By Its Nature Something Esoteric, Neither Made For The Mob Nor Capable Of Being Prepared For The Mob.

The Few Assume To Be The Deputies, But They Are Often Only The Despoilers Of The Many.