Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.