The Church Is The Handmaid Of Tyranny

The Maxim, That Governments Ought To Train The People In The Way In Which They Should Go, Sounds Well. But Is There Any Reason For Believing That A Government Is More Likely To Lead The People In The Right Way Than The People To Fall Into The Right Way Of Themselves?

Language, The Machine Of The Poet, Is Best Fitted For His Purpose In Its Rudest State. Nations, Like Individuals, First Perceive, And Then Abstract. They Advance From Particular Images To General Terms. Hence The Vocabulary Of An Enlightened Society Is Philosophical, That Of A Half-civilized People Is Poetical.

An Acre In Middlesex Is Better Than A Principality In Utopia.

The Conformation Of His Mind Was Such That Whatever Was Little Seemed To Him Great, And Whatever Was Great Seemed To Him Little.

The Puritan Hated Bear-baiting, Not Because It Gave Pain To The Bear, But Because It Gave Pleasure To The Spectators.