"Great men whilst living must expect disgraces, Dead they're ador'd—when none desire their places."

"The chief business of a government is like that of a nurse, to hinder those who are under its care from doing mischie…"

"Man is that link of the chain of universal existence, by which spiritual and corporeal Beings are united … How will m…"

"Thousands are collected from the idle and the extravagant for seeing dogs, horses, men and monkeys perform feats of a…"

"We are unable to give life, and therefore ought not wantonly to take it away from the meanest insect, without suffici…"

"Omnipotence cannot work contradictions; it can only effect all possible things."

"Those who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty and prosperity of their country, and at the same time infringe her …"

"Soames Jenyns and his more celebrated reviewer, Dr. Johnson, as explicitly as Bentham, laid down the doctrine that ut…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"