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

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

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

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.