The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.