Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.