The English Are Busy; They

Brutes Are Deprived Of The High Advantages Which We Have; But They Have Some Which We Have Not. They Have Not Our Hopes, But Theyare Without Our Fears; They Are Subject Like Us To Death, But Without Knowing It; Even Most Of Them Are More Attentive Than We To Self-preservation, And Do Not Make So Bad A Use Of Their Passions.

Slavery, Properly So Called, Is The Establishment Of A Right Which Gives To One Man Such A Power Over Another As Renders Him Absolute Master Of His Life And Fortune.

In Republican Governments, Men Are All Equal; Equal They Are Also In Despotic Governments: In The Former, Because They Are Everything; In The Latter, Because They Are Nothing.

Knowledge Humanizes Mankind, And Reason Inclines To Mildness; But Prejudices Eradicate Every Tender Disposition.

They Who Love To Inform Themselves, Are Never Idle. Though I Have No Business Of Consequence To Take Care Of, I Am Nevertheless Continually Employed. I Spend My Life In Examining Things: I Write Down In The Evening Whatever I Have Remarked, What I Have Seen, And What I Have Heard In The Day: Every Thing Engages My Attention, And Every Thing Excites My Wonder: I Am Like An Infant, Whose Organs, As Yet Tender, Are Strongly Affected By The Slightest Objects.