Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.