I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.