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

It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.