The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and…

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Bred a scholar he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.

The good King of France desires only that you would take his word and let him be quiet till he has got the West Indies into his hands and his grandson well established in Spain, and then you may be sure you shall be as safe as he will let …

Wit and good nature meeting in a fair young lady as they do in you make the best resemblance of an angel that we know; and he that is blessed with the conversation and friendship of a person so extraordinary enjoys all that remains of …

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.