History Is A Pact Between The Dead,

The Cause Of A Wrong Taste Is A Defect Of Judgment.

The Only Infallible Criterion Of Wisdom To Vulgar Minds - Success.

Religious Persecution May Shield Itself Under The Guise Of A Mistaken And Over-zealous Piety.

Nothing Turns Out To Be So Oppressive And Unjust As A Feeble Government.

Instead Of Casting Away All Our Old Prejudices, We Cherish Them To A Very Considerable Degree, And, To Take More Shame To Ourselves, We Cherish Them Because They Are Prejudices; And The Longer They Have Lasted And The More Generally They Have Prevailed, The More We Cherish Them. We Are Afraid To Put Men To Live And Trade Each On His Own Private Stock Of Reason; Because We Suspect That This Stock In Each Man Is Small, And That The Individuals Would Do Better To Avail Themselves Of The General Bank And Capital Of Nations And Of Ages.