"The less we think, the more we talk: so it is with women and politicians."

"The love of reading is an exchange of hours of tedium for hours of delight."

"It is impossible for us to suppose that these are men; because if we should suppose them to be men, one would begin to believe that we ourselves are not Christians."

"The English are the people in the world who have best known how to take advantage of each of these three great things: religion, commerce, and liberty."

"The tyranny of a prince is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."