Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I...

My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was scarce 15 when, after doubting by turns of several Points as I found...

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it...

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Never confuse Motion with Action.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to...

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix’d in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will...

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favours, but as paying Debts. In my Travels, and since my Settlement, I have received much...

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.