Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!