Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?