It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.