Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

You can never plan the future by the past.

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

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

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

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

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