Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment

A jest breaks no bones