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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed.
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own reason! This is the motto of the Enlightenment.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Poets...tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.
That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common, quality of human nature.
All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.