Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. |
O freedom, first delight of human kind! |
The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. |
The most may err as grossly as the few. |
War is the trade of Kings. |
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity. |
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. |
I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. |
Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind. |
