There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

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.