The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.