There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.