What Maintains One Vice Would Bring Up

Hear Reason, Or She'll Make You Feel Her.

Slavery Is ...an Atrocious Debasement Of Human Nature.

To Inquisitive Minds Like Yours And Mine The Reflection That The Quantity Of Human Knowledge Bears No Proportion To The Quantity Of Human Ignorance Must Be In One View Rather Pleasing, Viz., That Though We Are To Live Forever We May Be Continually Amused And Delighted With Learning Something New.

The World Is Full Of Fools And Faint Hearts; And Yet Everyone Has Courage Enough To Bear The Misfortunes, And Wisdom Enough To Manage The Affairs, Of His Neighbor.

In Short, I Conceive That Great Part Of The Miseries Of Mankind Are Brought Upon Them By The False Estimates They Have Made Of The Value Of Things, And By Their Giving Too Much For Their Whistles.