Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.

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

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.