There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.