Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.