Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.