But where knowledge of trickery is evenly distributed, honesty not infrequently prevails.

When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.

It’s common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side rather than theirs.

There needn't be a fear of ethics. It doesn't mean you're uncompetitive. Quite the reverse, one hopes.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

465. — Innocence is most fortunate if it finds the same protection as crime.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.

Poverty makes social differences equal.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

If Papists can be supposed to be as good subjects as others, they may be equally tolerated... If all subjects should be equally countenanced, & imployd by the Prince. the Papist[s] have an equall title.