The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.