If You Run After Wit, You Will

To Love To Read Is To Exchange Hours Of Ennui For Hours Of Delight.

Human Laws Made To Direct The Will Ought To Give Precepts, And Not Counsels.

Liberty Itself Has Appeared Intolerable To Those Nations Who Have Not Been Accustomed To Enjoy It.

Experience Constantly Proves That Every Man Who Has Power Is Impelled To Abuse It; He Goes On Till He Is Pulled Up By Some Limits. Who Would Say It! Virtue Even Has Need Of Limits.

Men In Excess Of Happiness Or Misery Are Equally Inclined To Severity. Witness Conquerors And Monks! It Is Mediocrity Alone, And A Mixture Of Prosperous And Adverse Fortune That Inspire Us With Lenity And Pity.