The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!