Responsibility prevents crimes.
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.