The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

Great necessities call out great virtues.