Peace Is A Natural Effect Of Trade.

As Men Are Affected In All Ages By The Same Passions, The Occasions Which Bring About Great Changes Are Different, But The Causes Are Always The Same.

They Who Love To Inform Themselves, Are Never Idle. Though I Have No Business Of Consequence To Take Care Of, I Am Nevertheless Continually Employed. I Spend My Life In Examining Things: I Write Down In The Evening Whatever I Have Remarked, What I Have Seen, And What I Have Heard In The Day: Every Thing Engages My Attention, And Every Thing Excites My Wonder: I Am Like An Infant, Whose Organs, As Yet Tender, Are Strongly Affected By The Slightest Objects.

Religious Wars Are Not Caused By The Fact That There Is More Than One Religion, But By The Spirit Of Intolerance... The Spread Of Which Can Only Be Regarded As The Total Eclipse Of Human Reason.

Politics Are A Smooth File, Which Cuts Gradually, And Attains Its End By Slow Progression.

The English Are Busy; They Don't Have Time To Be Polite.