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

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

Those who attempt to level never equalize

You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.